AACN ESSENTIALS OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING This title has been archived.
Author: Marianne Chulay, RN, DNSc, FAAN, Suzanne Burns, RN, MSN, RRT, ACNP, CCRN, FAAN, FCCM
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN 10: 0071447717
ISBN 13: 9780071447713
Edition: 1st
ISBN 13: 9780071447713
Edition: 1st
Description:
With an emphasis on evidence-based practice Follows the plan of AACN's ECCO program providing online training for new staff in critical care and incorporates AACN Protocols for Practice. Includes the needs of those nurses working in "progressive care".
Table of Contents
Front Matter
I The Essentials
- Knowledge Competencies
- MULTIDISCIPLINARY PLAN OF CARE AND CRITICAL PATHWAYS
- PREVENTION OF COMMON COMPLICATIONS
- PATIENT AND FAMILY EDUCATION
- FAMILY-FOCUSED CARE
- TRANSPORTING THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT
- TRANSITIONING TO THE NEXT STAGE OF CARE
- SUPPORTING PATIENTS AND FAMILIES DURING THE DYING PROCESS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Knowledge Competencies
- BASIC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
- ECG WAVEFORMS, COMPLEXES, AND INTERVALS
- CARDIAC MONITORING
- DETERMINATION OF THE HEART RATE
- DETERMINATION OF CARDIAC RHYTHM
- COMMON ARRHYTHMIAS
- RHYTHMS ORIGINATING IN THE SINUS NODE ( Figure 3–8 )
- ARRHYTHMIAS ORIGINATING IN THE ATRIA ( Figure 3–14 )
- ARRHYTHMIAS ORIGINATING IN THE ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ( Figure 3–23 )
- ARRHYTHMIAS ORIGINATING IN THE VENTRICLES ( Figure 3–26 )
- ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCKS
- TEMPORARY PACING
- DEFIBRILLATION AND CARDIOVERSION
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Knowledge Competencies
- HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS
- BASIC COMPONENTS OF HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING SYSTEMS
- OBTAINING ACCURATE HEMODYNAMIC VALUES
- INSERTION AND REMOVAL OF CATHETERS
- OBTAINING AND INTERPRETING HEMODYNAMIC WAVEFORMS
- CONTINUOUS MIXED VENOUS OXYGEN MONITORING (SvO 2 )
- RIGHT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION CATHETERS
- MINIMALLY INVASIVE HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING
- APPLICATION OF HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Knowledge Competencies
- PHYSIOLOGIC MECHANISMS OF PAIN
- RESPONSES TO PAIN
- PAIN ASSESSMENT
- A MULTILEVEL APPROACH TO PAIN MANAGEMENT
- NONSTEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS
- OPIOIDS
- EPIDURAL ANALGESIA
- CUTANEOUS STIMULATION
- DISTRACTION
- IMAGERY
- RELAXATION AND SEDATION TECHNIQUES
- SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE ELDERLY
- SEDATION
- NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Knowledge Competencies
- MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION METHODS
- CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PHARMACOLOGY
- CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM PHARMACOLOGY
- ANTI-INFECTIVE PHARMACOLOGY
- PULMONARY PHARMACOLOGY
- GASTROINTESTINAL PHARMACOLOGY
- RENAL PHARMACOLOGY
- HEMATOLOGIC PHARMACOLOGY
- IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS
- SPECIAL DOSING CONSIDERATIONS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Assessment of Critically Ill Patients and Families
Planning Care for Critically Ill Patients and Families
Interpretation and Management of Basic Cardiac Rhythms
HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING
Airway and Ventilatory Management
Pain, Sedation, and Neuromuscular Blockade Management
Pharmacology
Ethical and Legal Considerations
II Pathologic Conditions
III Advanced Concepts in Caring for the Critically Ill Patient
IV Key Reference Information
Topics within this title:
- Acute Renal Failure
- Aneurysm
- Aortic Stenosis
- ARDS
- Arrhythmias
- Aspiration
- Asystole
- Atria
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Atrial Flutter
- Atrioventricular Block
- Atrioventricular Blocks
- Blood pressure
- Bradycardia
- Brain Injury
- Brain Tumors
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Cardiomyopathy
- Congestive Heart Failure
- COPD
- Critically Ill
- Diabetes
- Diabetes Insipidus
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- ECG
- Embolism
- Emergencies
- Heart Disease
- Hemorrhage
- Hypercalcemia
- Hyperkalemia
- Hypertension
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypokalemia
- Hypophosphatemia
- Hypoventilation
- Infarction
- Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Ischemic Heart Disease
- Left Ventricular Dysfunction
- Liver Failure
- Low Cardiac Output
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Mitral Insufficiency
- Mitral Stenosis
- Myocardium
- Overdose
- Overdoses
- Pain
- Pancreatitis
- Pericarditis
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonias
- Pulmonary artery
- Pulmonary Disease
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Renal Failure
- Respiratory Failure
- Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
- Seizures
- Sepsis
- Shock
- SIADH
- Signs and Symptoms
- Sinus Arrhythmia
- Sinus Tachycardia
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Stenosis
- Stroke
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Supraventricular Tachycardias
- Syndrome
- Syndromes
- Tachycardia
- Tachycardias
- Trauma
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tumors
- Ventilation
- Ventricles
- Ventricular Dysfunction
- Ventricular Fibrillation
- Ventricular Tachycardia
- Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome